by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 4, 2009 | Commentary
photo credit: smooshmasterflex But will they be able to wrestle with, as Winston Churchill once put it, ‘the mother of all monopolies, the landlord’? This will be a fascinating battle between David (chain stores…sorry I still can’t bring myself...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 3, 2009 | Articles
photo credit: Latente 囧 Le Sbarbine nel Governo From the Subprime to the Terrigenous: Recession begins at Home Gavin Putland’s excellent new report, being picked up by all sorts of websites and e-news services Background The American word “subprime” refers to...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 1, 2009 | Letters to the Editor
photo credit: Birta Rán Letter to the Age 01/06/09 Buy Australian veto David Barkley Box Hill Dear Editor, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner says the Government will not accept a push that breaches trade rules (29/5). All we hear is what it won’t do. The Rudd Government...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 1, 2009 | Commentary
Timely when local current affairs talk about 20,000 homeless whilst 20,000 vacant houses are holding these people to ransom In Lost Vegas.